Back in my 1960s history class, we had a resource book called Takin' it to the Streets: A Sixties Reader, that was pretty awesome. All kinds of primary source material for the civil rights, New Left, counterculture, Black Power, anti-war movements, you name it. It also included this article by Lucian Truscott IV from the Village Voice concerning the Stonewall riots. The thing that struck me, reading this article originally, was how free it felt. The tone is so...happy.
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You've reminded me of the hope I felt in the 1960's. Despite everything that was happening there was a feeling of possibilities. Some of that may have been an illusion. Or an affect of the opportunities growing up in my family gave me.
You know, everything I've studied and read from the '60s--everyone was in for the possibilities, it seemed like. There was a lot more optimism back then than there is now.